download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Kristi Noem paid an odd compliment to former President Donald Trump in her much-talked-about memoir. AdvertisementAs for Trump, Noem, who previously served in Congress before she was elected to lead the Mount Rushmore State, offered effusive praise for the former president throughout the book. "He really doesn't think he's better than anyone else," Noem wrote on Trump, a claim that even the former president might protest. "I love to watch her figure things out, in ways that grown-ups like me, would never consider, because that's just how we've always done things, Noem wrote.

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